Guess who’s back? It is the Real Slim Shady. And this time he dropped a dropped a bomb on the rap world last night, releasing his 11th studio album out of nowhere.
Eminem, real name Marshall Mathers, announced the new album on Instagram last night, January 16, to a rapturous response – so far, his post has more than 800,000 likes.
Titled Music To Be Murdered By, it’s his first LP since Kamikaze (which was also dropped without warning) in 2018. Eminem captioned his announcement with: ‘It’s your funeral.’ Unsurprisingly, the album itself is quite dark.
The 20-track selection features collaborations with late rapper Juice WRLD, Ed Sheeran, Anderson .Paak, Royce Da 5’9, Skylar Grey, Young M.A, and others. He’s worked with a lot of the artists on the album previously, too – for example, Grey featured heavily on Eminem and Dr. Dre’s iconic I Need a Doctor.
However, this marks the first time Eminem has worked with Juice WRLD, the 21-year-old Lucid Dreams rapper who died in December last year – he’d said previously that Slim Shady was a big influence on his own work.
